First on my list would be a Mac that sits between the iMac and the PowerMac. Something with the power of the top end iMac but with no screen, plus a spare hard drive slot and interchangeable optical drive.
That's been on many people's wishlists for years. That would be good- the Mac range is a lot less confusing than it used to be (all those different Power Macs, and Performa variants...!!), but nor is the range of options in shapes & sizes anything like as wide. An option like you suggest might well grow market share (though it could also cannibalise existing products' sales instead). What I'd like, as a Mac Pro owner, is something for those of us who like playing games. It's good at games, but it should be great. SLI/Crossfire, some up-to-date graphics cards, some proper system preferences (ATI still haven't updated their software to support the X1900XT)ÉI'm not holding my breath though.
The Cube was never upgradeable enough- I took one look at the specs and said 'Nope', and umpteen others did too. Lovely machine, but it should have been low-end like the mini (which seems to be slowly dying...pity). Having said that, I'm one of those 'prosumers' who needs/wants all those slots. I filled the PCI slots of my beige G3, the G4 MDD got a USB 2.0 card & upgrade to Radeon 9800, the Mac Pro's now got three hard drives (one for Leopard, one for Time Machine, the standard one's now dedicated to Win XP), so I'm probably not the target audience for such a machine, if they ever launch it. The Mac Pro's finally had a decent upgrade (not that I'm ready to go for it, perfectly happy with what I've got, though I'll probably get the 8800GT if it'll work). Still no dual graphics slots, but hefty processor upgrade, bus speed bump, decent graphics cards (they're actually up-to-date models, praise be!), etc. I'll wait till my AppleCare runs out, probably longer. I prefer a BIG upgrade every few years, before the one I've got starts creaking too much at the effort of running whatever software's pushing it to the limit at the time..
John Surtees 